Business name: Expedia CruiseShipCenters
Address: 67 Federal Road, Brookfield
Owners: Jim and Mary Villamana of Newtown
Business background: Jim: I had the opportunity throughout my ca...
Northern Fairfield Professionals will conduct its next meeting Tuesday, February 12,at the Holy Innocents Faith Formation Center at St Rose of Lima Parish. This month's guest speaker will be Rob Thomas, who will discuss “Beyond The Business Card.”
Veterinarian Dr John Robb is currently celebrating the soft opening of his new Protect The Pets practice at 98 South Main Street and will hold a day-long event on Saturday, January 19.
UPDATE: With information received on February 11 from Main Street Adventures, this article has been updated to show Kayla Buckley is the sole owner.
Business name: Main Street Adventures
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Professionals, business owners, entrepreneurs, and the public are invited to join The Working Women’s Forum on Wednesday, January 9, for a panel discussion on "Top Things I Learned Starting My Own Business.”
Business name: Danny’s Barbershop
Address: 150 South Main Street
Owner: Nderim Erbeli
Business background: Originally, I started back in Albania in my hometown. I always enjoyed gettin...
How do you propose tapping the brakes, Dave? 8-30g already trumps any local regulations- you don't have a brake pedal to push. Brookfield, Trumbull and now Ridgefield have a clear case for a moratorium based on the development (thanks to 8-30g) that has already occurred. I don't see a clear case for Newtown to request a moratorium... yet.
Nobody is suggesting shutting the doors on new neighbors. What neighboring towns are doing, and what we should be doing too, is to tap the brakes on all of the multi-family residential development proposals so that we can spend 6 months updating our regulations such that if you want to build dense residential housing here, XX percent of it needs to be affordable (we will never make any headway on increasing our percentage of affordable housing otherwise, short of 8-30g), and the rest needs to be done in as low an impact manner as possible. Low impact on traffic, health & safety, the environment and on the cost of town services.
Hey, there you go! Richard solved it. Thanks, that seems so easy- we'll just get rid of the 2nd amendment and the Supreme Court. Seriously, the 2nd amendment doesn't create violent criminals or mental illness. The Supreme Court doesn't create violent criminals or mental illness. The problem is not the tools, but the criminals & the mental illness. The state of Connecticut seems to be focused on the tools, like Richard, while ignoring the users of those tools.
Ned, please familarize yourself with 8-30G, and then please share the unique flaws that may be helpful in formulating a denial
An 8-30g project can be denied only on very narrow grounds – i.e., if it presents health, safety or other concerns that exceed a town’s need for affordable housing.
According to the TOG website, “projects cannot be rejected for incompatibility with a Town’s Plan of Conservation and Development (POCD); density; traffic congestion; height; aesthetics; concerns of neighbors or the community; and failure to comply with local zoning regulations.”
8-30g proposals are rarely denied by planning and zoning officials because the burden of proof on appeal is on the town. Appeals are costly, but a municipality can be successful in a court case if it has sufficiently established that the concerns leading to denial are factual and substantive.
The town should certainly measure its performance against the statewide strategies. Unless I missed it I only know of one small cluster of homes that would meet the affordable housing program. Given the 500 or so new units being added in the last 10 years I think that 4/500 would not meet the metric to allow for a moratorium. I mean, fingers crossed for a Christmas miracle but I suspect we will see a few 8-30's sent our way in a method to avoid the Nimby mob. Thanks, Nimby mob.
